Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I congratulate you. I can tell you that you carried the National Party to a man and a woman. They supported you—as they did you, Senator Ferguson. My question is addressed to Senator Carr, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. I ask Senator Carr: is the New South Wales Labor Minister for Energy correct when he says that the Rudd Labor government’s emissions trading scheme could double power prices in the eastern seaboard electricity market, hence adversely affecting Australian industry?